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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Wow, the arrogance and entitlement of this post are just shocking.
Piracy is illegal and harms people who actually produce content. Like Harry.
People - like you - who assert that people should be able to steal other people's work have their moral bearings. Particularly when they try to claim the moral ground themselves.
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Some things have to be set aside for the greater good. I mean, did you invent fire? But I'm sure you use it sometimes. But you aren't compensating the person (or the family of) the person that created fire.
Copyright shouldn't be any different than patents (and it wasn't, really). Look at Dracula - look at how much it has added to society, in terms of culture and producing jobs and such.
And none of that would ever have happened under current copyright law. Wouldn't be touchable until 1987.
And it's very debatable that piracy hurts authors in the first place. If anything, simply not being known is the worst thing an author faces. An author with a fanbase will make money.